WEST MIDLANDS

Birmingham, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffs, Warwickshire and Worcestershire

ANCESTORS OF BIRMINGHAM w ancestorsofbirmingham.com/ index.htm

This site has some transcribed records for churches in Aston, Birmingham, Coventry, Foleshill and Warwickshire.

FAMILYSEARCH w familysearch.org

Search 775,855 new Shropshire records, plus a Staffordshire collection (with Findmypast) and records from Warwickshire.

ANCESTRY £ w ancestry.co.uk

Search 1,217,337 pre-1813 records, 2,091,136 baptisms to 1912, 1,339,511 banns/marriages (1754–1937) and 484,438 burials (1813–1964), all for Birmingham, plus 5,115,932 records from Warwickshire.

FINDMYPAST £ w findmypast.co.uk

Findmypast has over 370,000 images of registers from Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service; records from Anguline Research; registers from Shropshire Archives; registers from Warwickshire Record Office; and indexes from Derbyshire and Worcestershire.

FREEREG w freereg.org.uk

FreeREG has 3,792,877 records from Staffordshire. It also has 672,155 records for Worcestershire, 634,728 for Warwickshire and 167,977 for Shropshire, in addition to 20,493 from Herefordshire.

THEGENEALOGIST £ w thegenealogist.co.uk

TheGenealogist has collections of records from Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire (with images), Shropshire and Worcestershire.

HEF VARIOUS REGISTER PAGES EXTRACTS w homepages.rootsweb.com/~slkarner/HEF_Parish

This website has copies of roughly 3,900 Herefordshire parish records, organised by parish and surname.

MELOCKI w melocki.org.uk/index.html

A personal site that includes a small selection of transcribed registers from Shropshire, Hereford and Worcester.